Word: understand
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...emancipated from the rigid discipline of the school master, they cannot be made to take very seriously any studies which do not have a manifest bearing on their career in life. But if it be true that they cannot be led to work hard in an earnest effort to understand the knowledge slowly wrought out, and the civilization painfully achieved by man upon this planet, then our colleges do not deserve to survive and will certainly...
...truth of this war," as they often expressed it. President Eliot's views concerning it have been widely read in France, and have created a profound impression there; whatever the rest of the United States may feel and do, the French look to Harvard for assurances of friendship and understanding. Only those who have recently been in France can understand how highly such assurances are prized there today...
...matter should be brought to the attention of all incoming Freshmen and should be kept in mind by members of the clubs themselves. The greatest danger to the success of the agreement lies in the chance that some members of one or more clubs will forget or not understand some provisions of the agreement and do something which will seem to the members of some other club or clubs to violate its terms. They in turn may be tempted to retaliate in kind, and then the fat will be in the fire. If the members of the clubs will keep...
...June number of the Graduates' Magazine marks the close of Mr. William Roscoe Thayer's twenty-three years of service as its editor. In glancing through the pages of this issue, it is easy to understand why it has taken first place among alumni periodicals. The magazine is not a newspaper, but is includes, besides its various articles from men connected with the University, a complete account of undergraduate and graduate activities, so that it becomes as complete and accurate a chronicle of Harvard as can be compiled. Its great attraction lies, however, in the number of valuable literary...
...order that the spectators may understand the Henley signal system which will be used at the Harvard Invitation Regatta next Saturday and Monday, the following explanation has been issued by the Regatta Committee...